Forms and Places of Power
We are going to talk about power and places type:
-> The power is necessarily an opposition between ruler and a ruled.
There are many forms and places of power:
Among the places of power, there are the White House, the Buckingham Palace, the Pentagon…
? These places are powerful because they have political and military influence.
Government is a governor who exercises his power through institutions such as the courts or prisons
In this case, the governed are citizens who obey the laws of the government.
But sometimes there is abuse of power,and we see resistances to power, as when there was apartheid in South Africa.
Indeed, there was a racial discrimination between blacks and whites.
The great figure of the resistance in South Africa was Nelson Mandela: he fought all his life against discrimination against black, he was imprisoned for several years.
==========================================================================Among the forms of power, there is, for example, the power of the media. Indeed, the media play a very important role within today's society. Media consists of books, television, movies, music, internet, radio, magazines, newspapers etc
* Media have positive aspects: we can stay informed about political, social events very easily, you can have fun watching movies and listening to the music.
(Through newspapers, TV, radio …)
* But media have also bad/negative aspects. Indeed, today, it has become a great weapon to influence the opinions of individuals.
For example, electronic media has the power to manipulate information, they can deny certain facts and expose another, they can broadcast in loop a topic to influence the vision of the mass of viewers (the presidential nominee can pay for more exposure on TV…)
Media display the way of life for those who follows it.
So media can influence the dressing manners of teenagers through theirs favorite film actors, etc. For example, children are specifically targeted in the
-> The power is necessarily an opposition between ruler and a ruled.
There are many forms and places of power:
Among the places of power, there are the White House, the Buckingham Palace, the Pentagon…
? These places are powerful because they have political and military influence.
Government is a governor who exercises his power through institutions such as the courts or prisons
In this case, the governed are citizens who obey the laws of the government.
But sometimes there is abuse of power,and we see resistances to power, as when there was apartheid in South Africa.
Indeed, there was a racial discrimination between blacks and whites.
The great figure of the resistance in South Africa was Nelson Mandela: he fought all his life against discrimination against black, he was imprisoned for several years.
==========================================================================Among the forms of power, there is, for example, the power of the media. Indeed, the media play a very important role within today's society. Media consists of books, television, movies, music, internet, radio, magazines, newspapers etc
* Media have positive aspects: we can stay informed about political, social events very easily, you can have fun watching movies and listening to the music.
(Through newspapers, TV, radio …)
* But media have also bad/negative aspects. Indeed, today, it has become a great weapon to influence the opinions of individuals.
For example, electronic media has the power to manipulate information, they can deny certain facts and expose another, they can broadcast in loop a topic to influence the vision of the mass of viewers (the presidential nominee can pay for more exposure on TV…)
Media display the way of life for those who follows it.
So media can influence the dressing manners of teenagers through theirs favorite film actors, etc. For example, children are specifically targeted in the